Re: Just curious . . .

[Jeanne Chappell <momkat@primenet.com>]

joko@crl.com (Joe Kohn) wrote:
>>> "Those were the days, my friend... We thought would never end..."
>
>I still remember very clearly going back to my computer dealer and asking
>about this thing I'd just read about called a disk drive. Unfortunately, at
>the time, I was quoted a price of $600. I decided that for 600 bucks, I'd
>just continue to use my trusty cassette tapes.

We had 'dimmer' switches in a couple of rooms in our house.  If the light with 
the dimmer switches were on, they interfered with the input/output on the 
cassette tape.  A common yell heard up the stairs in our house when we wanted 
to do input/output on our Apple II was "TURN OFF ALL THE DIMMER SWITCHES!"
We eventually solved the problem by removing the dimmer switches.  But, we 
were in hog-heaven when we purchased our first Disk ][ drive - Christmas of 
1979.